Sentences with phrase «as small tumors»

As small tumors grow most rapidly, they are most susceptible to therapy.

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Still, how melanoma cells join into tumors — whether by individual cells coming together or small or large clusters of cells doing so — follows the same pattern as breast tissue cancer cells: Cables are extended to reel in other cells or clusters.

In some horses, tumors develop as small bumps under the skin or as scaly lesions that easily can be removed by a veterinarian, but in other horses the problem becomes much more serious.

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The new «tumor in a dish» method begins by taking the cancerous tissue removed during surgery or biopsy, cutting it up into small pieces and putting them in a special collagen gel that maintains them as «organoids» that retain the three - dimensional structure of the original tumor and include supporting cells from the tumor's environment.

Dr Jeremy Thomas, a consultant pathologist at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, told the European Breast Cancer Conference that although the majority of women with DCIS received the correct surgery for their disease, large numbers of women were undergoing mastectomy for DCIS either as a result of failed breast conservation surgery or for tumors that turned out to be smaller than 20 mm in diameter and therefore should normally have had a lumpectomy rather than a mastectomy.

The total number of women who had mastectomies, including those for whom mastectomy was the first course of action as well as those who had failed breast conservation, was 2,479; of these, 510 (21 %) had mastectomies for tumors smaller than 20 mm in diameter, which would normally have been better treated with a lumpectomy.

The researchers grafted breast or lung tumors in mice, allowed the tumors to grow to small size and removed these tumors surgically — essentially mimicking the situation in a human tumor patient in which the tumor is surgically removed as soon as possible after diagnosis.

Offspring that inherited the triplicated genes and the genetic susceptibility to cancer had only half the number of intestinal tumors as their cancer - prone parents, and the tumors that did develop were smaller, the team reports in the 3 January issue of Nature.

Finding cancer early can improve a patient's chances for survival, but small tumors can be difficult to see with scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance...

One group of small, non-coding RNA molecules could serve as a marker to improve cancer staging and may also be able to convert some advanced tumors to more treatable stages, report a University of Chicago - based research team in the April 1, 2008, issue of the journal Genes & Development.

The average tumor detected by ultrasound measures about five centimeters in diameter, and the biomarkers used in blood tests enable oncologists to detect tumors as small as one centimeter.

Some cancer prevention is based on systematic screening in order to detect small irregularities or tumors as early as possible even if there are no clear symptoms present.

As the irradiated area is smaller, the drug delivery is confined to the targeted area, resulting in less damage to healthy tissue surrounding the tumor.

But as fewer and fewer women were diagnosed with large breast tumors, pre-op chemo began to be used in patients with smaller cancers, too, in the hope that it would extend survival.

As expected, tier 1 mutations comprised the smallest category and tier 3 the largest in all tumors.

Orders of magnitude more sensitive than conventional Raman microscopy, they allow mapping of 3D distributions of small molecules, such as metabolites and drugs, as well as tumor identification in tissues, which open many exciting new possibilities for biology and medicine.

This is to accommodate small variants that occur at sites of copy number variation as well as in samples that are not pure: for example, due to tumor heterogeneity or sample mosaicism.

The tumors formed in mice co-treated with chidamide and decitabine were significantly smaller than those that formed in untreated animals or those treated with the single agents, starting from 15 days of treatment (Figure 4C, left panel), as visualized by 18F - fluorodeoxyglucose small - animal positron emission tomography — computed tomography at 21 days of treatment (Figure 4C, right panel).

The company's lead candidate, GLN - 1001, is a first - in - class, orally available oncolytic small molecule, currently being developed as a potentially disease modifying therapy for glioblastoma by targeting specific vulnerabilities in tumor cells.

The NCI's website describes active targeting as «the targeting of nanoparticles to tumor cells, microenvironment or vasculature, as well as directed delivery to intracellular compartments, through nanoparticle surface modification with small molecules, antibodies, affibodies, peptides or aptamers.»

Also increasingly valuable is a procedure known as ablation, in which small tumors are destroyed with electricity, radio waves, microwaves or by freezing, Fong said.

The fourth panel of the upper row shows tumor with no red NSCs in mice treated with trastuzumab alone (sporadic small red dots not associated with cells are visible as autofluorescence background).

As Dr. Moerman discovered, small amounts of Vitamin A had little effect on stopping the growth of the tumors.

The doctor reading your mammogram will be looking for different types of breast changes, such as small white spots called calcifications, lumps or tumors called masses, and other suspicious areas that could be signs of cancer.

Researchers have determined that small amounts of EVOO, as low as one tablespoon per day, can lower inflammatory signaling in our body, including levels of interleukin - 6 (IL - 6) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF - alpha).

«The types of cancer are very similar to those diagnosed in humans and similar cancers appear in both small animal species such as lymphoma and skin tumors.

Dr. Mehl has authored more than 25 publications in peer - reviewed journals covering many surgical diseases such as laryngeal disorders and treatment, adrenal tumors, bone tumors, liver shunts in small and large breed dogs, kidney transplantation, feline ureteral surgery, episoplasty in dogs, laparoscopic surgery, tracheal surgery and thoracic surgery.

An adrenal tumor removal is traditionally one of the most challenging procedures in small animal surgery, as the adrenal gland is located in a difficult position next the vena cava (the largest vein in the abdomen) as well as the renal arteries and veins (to the kidneys), the aorta, and other vital structures.

Major procedures such as tumor removals require more pain relief than smaller procedures such as a minor laceration repair.

The blood can be coming from your dog's lungs, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, or upper (small) intestine and this can mean a serious disorder such as a tumor.

These tumors appear as a solid mass or several small growths or swellings, easily felt under the skin.

Middle - aged and senior animals can develop some growths that are considered normal with age, such as small eyelid tumors and warts.

While it's true that there have been more reports of malignant sarcomas in lab mice and rats, you should know that these small lab animals frequently develop malignant tumors as a result of ANY kind of injection, microchip or not.

Although he has a history of T - Cell Lymphoma manifesting as a tumor on a loop of small intestine, the -LSB-...]

In addition to the common dog and cat spays and neuters, we have the equipment and knowledge to address such maladies as fracture repairs, torn ligaments and tumor removal from the smallest of creatures such as hamsters to large breed dogs.

These are small, cauliflower - like, viral - produced tumors that proliferate as a dog ages.

Large and small animal nuclear medicine is available and is a subspecialty of radiology in which radioisotopes (compounds containing radioactive forms of atoms) are put into the body to evaluate organ function or localize bone disease such as stress fractures or tumor metastasis.

Mouth tumors, or oral tumors, in dogs appear as small to large lumps in the gums near teeth or on the inner jawbone area.